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An outdoor music festival is any outdoor entertainment, amusement and/or assembly, which attracts, or it is reasonably anticipated will attract, one thousand or more persons, in which the presentation of outdoor, live or recorded musical entertainment is or is anticipated to be a major activity. All outdoor music festivals are subject to the regulations set forth in this Chapter, unless otherwise specified in this Section:

A. No approval shall be granted for an Outdoor Music Festival of more than one day's duration.

B. Outdoor music festivals shall not be open to the public before the hour of 10 a.m. and shall not remain open to the public after 12 midnight of the same day.

C. No firm, person, society, association or corporation conducting an outdoor music festival, nor any person having charge or control thereof at any time when an outdoor music festival is being conducted, shall permit any person to bring into said outdoor music festival, or upon the premises thereof, any intoxicating liquor, nor permit intoxicating liquor to be consumed on the premises, and no person during said time shall take or carry onto said premises or drink thereon intoxicating liquor.

D. No approval shall be granted for an outdoor music festival unless the application is accompanied by the written approval of the Sheriff of Pierce County indicating that the following conditions have been complied with by the applicant.

1. That adequate traffic control and crowd protection policing have been contracted for by the applicant. Traffic control and crowd control personnel shall be commissioned peace officers, licensed merchant patrolmen, or named persons meeting the Pierce County Sheriff's requirements for becoming merchant patrolmen. One such person shall be provided for each 200 persons reasonably expected to be in attendance at any time during the event for the purpose of crowd control, and one such person shall be provided for the purpose of traffic control for every 400 persons reasonably expected to be in attendance; provided, that no less than 20 percent of the traffic and crowd control personnel shall be commissioned police officers or deputy sheriffs: provided further, that any commissioned police officer or deputy sheriff who is employed and compensated by the promoter of an outdoor music festival shall not be eligible and shall not receive any benefits whatsoever from any public pension or disability plan of which he is a member for the time he is so employed or for any injuries received during the course of such employment.

2. It shall be the duty of policing personnel other than commissioned police officers or deputy sheriffs to report any violations of the law to the Pierce County Sheriff or his deputies.

E. No outdoor music festival shall be operated in a location which is closer than 500 yards from any school, church, house, residence or other place of permanent human habitation.

F. No application for an outdoor music festival permit shall be issued until the Pierce County Sheriff shall have fingerprinted, investigated the character and reputation of the applicant or applicants, and his or their fitness to conduct such business. Every application shall be accompanied by the fingerprints and a 3-inch by 5-inch photograph of each and every person having any proprietary interest of 10 percent or more in said licensed activity.

(Ord. 2013-85 § 1 (part), 2013; Ord. 2013-30s2 § 5 (part), 2013)